Aviation safety investigations & reports

Summary

On 11 May 2011, the Indonesian National Transport Safety Committee (NTSC) requested technical assistance from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB), in the recovery of information from the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of a XAC MA60 aircraft that impacted the sea on approach to Kaimana Airport, Papua Barat, Indonesia on 7 May 2011. The 21 passengers and 4 crew on-board the aircraft were fatally injured in the accident.

The NTSC is responsible for investigating this occurrence. In accordance with clause 5.23 of Annex 13 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, the ATSB appointed an accredited representative to assist the NTSC and initiated an investigation under the Australian Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003.

Download and analysis of the FDR and CVR was successful and both were found to contain good quality data including the entire accident flight. Support and information was provided to the NTSC during the course of the investigation and the ATSB's Technical Analysis Report was provided to the NTSC.

A final investigation report regarding this occurrence will be released by the NTSC.

The National Transport Safety Committee of Indonesia is responsible for releasing the investigation report.